It's not possible to disable the "-b" flag to sshguard, and on our systems at least, enabling this option causes sshguard to crash. How-To-Repeat: Set sshguard_blacklist="" in rc.conf. Try to start sshguard.
Maintainer of security/sshguard, Please note that PR ports/174018 has just been submitted. If it contains a patch for an upgrade, an enhancement or a bug fix you agree on, reply to this email stating that you approve the patch and a committer will take care of it. The full text of the PR can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/174018 -- Edwin Groothuis via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool edwin@FreeBSD.org
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Awaiting maintainers feedback (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
You can try to use this patch http://sshguard.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sshguard/trunk/src/fwalls/ipfw.c?view=patch&r1=226&r2=225&pathrev=226 seems it will helps to blacklist work again
<<On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:39:21 +0200, Alex <apmpc@apmpc.dp.ua> said: > You can try to use this patch > http://sshguard.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sshguard/trunk/src/fwalls/ipfw.c?view=patch&r1=226&r2=225&pathrev=226 > seems it will helps to blacklist work again That would be an improvement but it still should be possible to disable that feature from rc.conf. -GAWollman
Feld, you get to adopt the PRs with the port. :)
A commit references this bug: Author: feld Date: Mon Nov 3 21:56:19 UTC 2014 New revision: 372126 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/372126 Log: Make it possible to run sshguard without blacklist database by setting in rc.conf: sshguard_blacklist="" This may fix reliability for some users. PR: 174018 Changes: head/security/sshguard/Makefile head/security/sshguard/files/sshguard.in